US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 3 for "Manipulator system and manipulator operation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,384, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Manipulator system and manipulator operation method" was invented by Shota Sawada (Hachioji, Japan) and Kosuke Kishi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulator system includes: a manipulator including a bending portion and a bending wire configured to bend the bending portion; a driving portion configured to pull and loosen the bending wire; and a control device configured to control the driving portion, wherein the control device controls the driving portion to perform an initialization operation that alternately repeats pulling and loosening of the ben...